[OSM-talk] Nominatim weakness

Sarah Hoffmann lonvia at denofr.de
Wed Dec 16 08:39:00 UTC 2015


On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 07:41:14PM +0000, Andy Mabbett wrote:
> On 14 December 2015 at 08:25, Sarah Hoffmann <lonvia at denofr.de> wrote:
> 
> > Some helpful person has put a wikipedia link to the Starbucks
> > wikipedia page on every single Starbucks in Japan.
> 
> That sounds like something that should be undone; mechanically if necessary
> 
> Better still,convert to franchise.wikidata=Q37158
> 
> > Having a wikipedia page boosts the importance
> > of an object.
> 
> Does a Wikidata tag have the same effect? It should do.

wikidata tags are currently ignored. The simple reason is that they didn't
exist at the time the wikipedia stuff was implemented. Definitely something
that needs looking into at some point.

Sarah



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